, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics ….6 and 2.1 percentage points in primary and lower secondary education respectively, with girls more severely affected than … potential labor earnings loss from dropping out of primary and secondary school is almost double for girls than for boys …

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable … resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we hypothesize that reducing gender inequality … women grow relatively faster in countries with ex-ante lower gender inequality. The test allows us to identify the causal …

This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender … budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal policies and administration to address gender inequality … framework for assessing the effect of gender budgeting. States with gender budgeting efforts have made more progress on gender …

This paper examines gender inequality in the context of structural transformation and rebalancing in China. We document … sector productivity can boost both gender equality and economic growth in China …

This paper identifies five key issues that are important for the continued efforts to tackle gender inequality: (i …) gender inequality needs to be distinguished from gender gaps. Not all gender gaps necessarily reflect gender inequality as … some gender gaps are not driven by the lack of equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities bywomen and girls, and this …

negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal …This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to … promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and …

place, and more diffuse gender norms as possible explanatory factors …

We study the long-run and multi-generational effects of a mass education program in Vietnam during the First Indochina … War (1946-1954). Difference-in-difference estimations indicate that the children of mothers exposed to the education … program had an average of 0.9 more years of education. We argue that the impact is via mother’s education. An additional year …

While South Africa has made significant improvements in basic and tertiary education enrollment, the country still … finds that money is clearly not the main issue since the South Africa's education budget is comparable to OECD countries as …

intertemporal trade-off. Because investment in education affects labor productivity with a long lag, it takes 15+ years before net …